Peter Gavin Collection

Peter’s brief nautical history

Peter attended Atlantic College, Dublin from Sept. 1964 to April 1965 where he emerged with a First Class RO cert plus B City & Guilds. He was offered a position by Marconi (North Wall) Dublin but could not be assigned to a ship due to the British Seamen’s Strike which lasted from May 16th to July 3rd 1966 . He was assigned to his first ship mv City of Eastbourne (Ellerman Lines) and joined as Junior RO on the 20th July 1966. His photo in Blues relates to that ship. Signed off on the 11.11.1966. Next ship was the Shell Tanker st Hadriania and served as Junior RO from 11.12.1966 to 9.2.1967. His photo in whites relates to this ship. He finally left Marconi on 15.8 1969 and attended a Radar Course at the College of Technology, Kevin St. Dublin from September 1969 (at his own expense!) to January 1970.  All the Radar Class photos relate to this period.

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Marconi Cover
1-Marconi Inst
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4-5
6-7
8-9
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Greek Cert
REOUsubs
1-Aruba Fishing Jun-1970
2-G. Jay May 70
3-G. Jay May3 70
4-G. Jay May6 70
5-G. Jay May7 70_0001
6-Iceberg off St Johns Dec-1970
8-Leaving St John 5-70
9-Panama 70
10-St Johns ZFOK 12-70
11-St Lawrnce 4-70
12-ZFOK 09-70
14-ZFOK Mar 70
15-ZFOK Wet Lunch 1970
16-Sunset 71
Halifax Radio Xmas 1970
Halifax Radio Xmas1 1970
1-G. Jay May2 70
2-G. Jay May4 70
3-Radio Rm 02-70
4-ZFOK 3-70
Peter RO Photo 2
City of Eastbourne
Hadriania 1967
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Liberia Cert
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PGPMG1
PGPMG2
PGPMG3
PGPMG4
Marconi Cover
1-Marconi Inst
2-3
4-5
6-7
8-9
10
Greek Cert
REOUsubs
1-Aruba Fishing Jun-1970
2-G. Jay May 70
3-G. Jay May3 70
4-G. Jay May6 70
5-G. Jay May7 70_0001
6-Iceberg off St Johns Dec-1970
8-Leaving St John 5-70
9-Panama 70
10-St Johns ZFOK 12-70
11-St Lawrnce 4-70
12-ZFOK 09-70
14-ZFOK Mar 70
15-ZFOK Wet Lunch 1970
16-Sunset 71
Halifax Radio Xmas 1970
Halifax Radio Xmas1 1970
1-G. Jay May2 70
2-G. Jay May4 70
3-Radio Rm 02-70
4-ZFOK 3-70
Peter RO Photo 2
City of Eastbourne
Hadriania 1967
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Liberia Cert
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Obtained his first Freelance assignment on the ST Golden Jay 16.2.1970 and finally signed off on 01.06.1971.  All the Golden Jay photos including Radio rooms relate to this period. The Golden Jay was the ex Esso Canterbury and all the radio equipment was Marconi Marine which made this trip a very smooth transition from MIMCO to freelance! He has written extensively about this period in the March QSO under the heading Golden Days on the Golden Jay and hopes to have a few future articles on some other ships. He served on another 3 ships as freelance RO until he finally swallowed the anchor in March 1973.Peter has advised me that he has a good stock of photos buried in an attic in Ireland and we look forward to receiving those to add to this collection.

In 1969 Peter took his radar maintenance certificate at Kevin Street College in Dublin. The list adjoining shows the names of the students and the four pictures below give some excellent memories of the course.

Kevin Street Radar Cert Class – Sept 1969 to Jan 1970. Lecturer John Mahon

Peter Gavin             Martin Mooney
Dick Hanlon             Larry Kelly
Mike Bulger              Martin Lynch
Phil O’Donnell           Phillip Pak
Pat Hennessey          Eamonn McGuffin
Brian Phelin               Patrick Tracey
Alan Roche                Vincent Cullen

Kevin St Radar 1969
Radar Class Jan-1970
Radar Class2 Jan-1970
Radar Class3 Jan-1970
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Kevin St Radar 1969
Radar Class Jan-1970
Radar Class2 Jan-1970
Radar Class3 Jan-1970
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One Comment

  1. i sailed with shell for 34 years never met many of the roa members
    many changes from r/0 to Electronics Officer, to ELECTRO TECHNICAL OFFICER.
    Had to take a class 4 engineers ticket to become an eto which caused many
    ex r/os to leave the sea.

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